Microsoft’s Bold Goal: Replace 1B Lines of C/C++ With Rust

Microsoft is hiring top-level engineers to help to get rid of C and C++ in its largest codebases and replace that code with Rust.

In a job listing post on LinkedIn, Galen Hunt, distinguished engineer at Microsoft, wrote: “My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030.”

In responding to questions from commenters about why Rust and not another (more familiar) language like C#, Hunt mentioned memory safety and concurrence.

“Two reasons for Rust over C#: 1) C# is memory safe, but not concurrent safe, 2) performance…